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How Parents Can Detect Smishing Attacks on Their Child's Smartphone Early

How Parents Can Detect Smishing Attacks on Their Child's Smartphone Early

May 21, 2026 By SecuritySenses In SecuritySenses
Teenagers get dozens of texts every day in this digital age. Some of those come from delivery applications, gaming platforms, schools or friends. However fraudsters are increasingly employing risky smishing attacks to fool kids into clicking on phony links, disclosing passwords or divulging personal information by hiding these typical messages.
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SMBs Hit a Cybersecurity Breaking Point as 91% Fear AI-Driven Attacks, Driving Shift to MSP-Led Security Models, WatchGuard Finds

SMBs Hit a Cybersecurity Breaking Point as 91% Fear AI-Driven Attacks, Driving Shift to MSP-Led Security Models, WatchGuard Finds

May 20, 2026 By WatchGuard In WatchGuard
LONDON, May 20 2026 -New research from WatchGuard Technologies, a global leader in unified cybersecurity for MSPs, reveals that while most businesses believe they are adequately staffed, the complexity, speed, and scale of modern threats - especially those powered by artificial intelligence - have outpaced what internal teams can realistically manage. The result is a fundamental shift away from do-it-yourself security toward externally delivered, always-on protection models.
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Tines

Why AI-era attacks demand deterministic defense

May 20, 2026 By Thomas Kinsella In Tines
The security industry spent a good chunk of early 2026 debating whether Anthropic’s Mythos and OpenAI’s Daybreak are truly dangerous or just good marketing. It's a reasonable debate. But while we're having it, attackers are asking a different question: how do we use tools like this to move faster than defenders can respond?
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foresiet

GitHub Internal Repositories Breached: Source Code and Internal Data Allegedly Exfiltrated in 2026 Supply Chain Attack

May 20, 2026 By foresiet In Foresiet
In a significant security incident unfolding on May 20, 2026, GitHub confirmed unauthorized access to its internal repositories. The breach involved the exfiltration of sensitive internal source code and organizational data, reportedly totaling around 3,800 to 4,000 private repositories. A threat actor surfaced on underground forums advertising the stolen materials for sale, complete with directory listings of compressed archives and sample verification offers.
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indusface

How to Prevent SQL Injection Attacks (2026): 7 Proven Techniques

May 20, 2026 By Venkatesh Sundar In Indusface
Your database is one apostrophe away from a breach. SQL injection has been the most common web vulnerability for three consecutive years. The 2025 Verizon DBIR reports it contributed to 12% of all data breaches, up from 9% the year before. In December 2024, a PostgreSQL SQL injection zero-day gave state-sponsored attackers a path into the US Treasury. In 2023, a single campaign used it to steal 2 million job seeker records across 65 websites in one month. The fix has been known for two decades.
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sophos

WantToCry ransomware remotely encrypts files

May 19, 2026 By Sophos Counter Threat Unit Research Team In Sophos
SophosLabs analysts investigated WantToCry ransomware attacks that involved the threat actors abusing the Server Message Block (SMB) service for initial access and then exfiltrating files to attacker-controlled infrastructure for remote encryption. The detection surface is significantly reduced because WantToCry operates without local malware execution, and there is no post-compromise activity beyond exfiltrating files and rewriting them to disk.
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mend

Mini Shai-Hulud Hits @antv: 323 npm Packages Compromised Through the atool Maintainer Account

May 19, 2026 By Alina Podoba In Mend
An active supply chain attack has compromised 323 npm packages published under the atool npm maintainer account. The wave sweeps the entire @antv data-visualization organization alongside standalone libraries with wide independent adoption: echarts-for-react, timeago.js, size-sensor, and canvas-nest.js. With echarts-for-react pulling roughly 1.1 million weekly downloads, any project that auto-updates these packages is in scope.
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Snyk

The AntV Supply Chain Campaign Expands: Microsoft's `durabletask` PyPI Package Compromised

May 19, 2026 By Liran Tal In Snyk
The ink was barely dry on our coverage of the AntV Shai Hulud supply chain attack when a new compromise surfaced in the Python ecosystem. The target this time is durabletask, an open source Python package associated with Microsoft, used for building durable, fault-tolerant workflow orchestration on top of the Durable Task Framework. The latest safe version of durabletask is 1.4.0, and three known versions have been yanked from the PyPI registry.
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Kevin Mandia on AI-Powered Attacks: The Race Just Got Faster | Black Hat | Reach Security

May 19, 2026 By Reach Security In Reach Security
At Black Hat last year, we sat down with Kevin Mandia to talk about what's coming. His take: offense is going to accelerate with AI. Not slow down. Not plateau. Accelerate. When you've run more red teams than practically anyone on the planet, the pattern is clear. Getting into a victim network is already a race. AI compresses those time frames further. The attack surface isn't changing. Misconfigurations, things that slipped, controls that were on and got turned off. The entry point stays the same. AI just makes the race to exploit it faster.
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indusface

DDoS Attack Prevention: 15 Best Practices to Stop Attacks in 2026

May 18, 2026 By Venkatesh Sundar In Indusface
DDoS attacks cost businesses an average of $6,130 per minute in downtime losses. According to the Indusface State of Application Security 2026 report, 70% of all websites faced at least one DDoS attack in 2025, attacks per website grew 27% year over year, and APIs were targeted 675% more than traditional websites.
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